4077

Chapter 4077: Beyond Heaven and Earth

Undead servants kept reaching the edge of the Land of Severed Daos, then entering the Great Wilderness. Most would be teleported directly into wild beast hordes and killed instantly. A few landed in the wilds and were temporarily safe.

Through repeated observations, Lin Moyu finally gained a deeper understanding of the Great Wilderness and the Dao Wild Beasts within. The number of wild beasts was staggering each filth pool had nearly ten million beasts outside it. With 108 pools, the total number of wild beasts exceeded a billion. While a billion was not much for Lin Moyu's undead army, the number of Beast Kings was truly astonishing likely over a hundred thousand. If they ever attacked the Hengduan Mountains together, with Beast Emperors leading, Lin Moyu doubted even several eternals could stop them.

The current balance was maintained not only by the vast formations of the Hengduan Mountains but likely also due to the Spirit Demons' efforts. Cultivators and Spirit Demons each occupied one side, encircling the Great Wilderness, with the Land of Severed Daos surrounding everything, making it difficult for the Dao Wild Beasts to truly break out.

The Great Wilderness was crisscrossed by rivers of filth; nearly all underground rivers surfaced here, but these rivers were not safe. Once, an undead servant encountered a wide river of filth. There were no wild beasts, but as the servant passed, a terrifying force surged from the river and dragged it in. Inside, the servant saw an octopus like creature, but only for a moment before being devoured this time, the servant couldn't even be revived, truly perishing.

The land itself was also dangerous. The ground could suddenly crack open, unleashing a suction force that pulled in the servant, which again could not be revived.

After many attempts, Lin Moyu realized why some areas of the Great Wilderness had no Dao Wild Beasts: the beasts themselves knew there were even more terrifying existences there. The impurities of the Great Dao did not only give rise to Dao Wild Beasts, but also to other dreadful beings.

The Great Wilderness was vast and unmapped; Lin Moyu's undead could only chart the areas they passed, like scattered puzzle pieces he could not yet assemble into a complete picture.

He did, however, make discoveries about the Land of Severed Daos. He found that its edge was not fixed it shifted constantly. One moment, a place would be the edge; the next, it would not. The boundary changed unpredictably, or perhaps by some pattern Lin Moyu had yet to discern. Thus, an undead servant might arrive at a spot that was the edge one moment but not the next.

Unable to find a pattern, Lin Moyu proceeded cautiously, sending undead ahead on both sides to scout and ensure his own safety. He had no desire to blunder into the Great Wilderness no matter how many lives he had, it wouldn't be enough.

He moved slowly, and on the tenth day after entering the Land of Severed Daos, he finally encountered a rift. The rift was about a hundred meters long, lying at a forty degree angle in the void, tearing a huge wound in space. Thick light flowed within, and the surrounding space twisted, as if silk were being drawn into the rift.

Lin Moyu did not approach, only watched from a distance. An Yuyan had warned him that rifts were extremely dangerous. He sent an undead servant to investigate. When it was a kilometer away, the rift suddenly flared, space twisted violently, and the servant was dragged in by an overwhelming force. The servant could not resist at all. As the rift erupted, Lin Moyu noticed that the projection of his Great Thousand World lost its effect, and the servant lost its source of power.

He watched helplessly as the servant was sucked in and lost contact until a few seconds later, the connection returned. The servant had arrived somewhere unimaginably distant, with only a faint link to Lin Moyu he could borrow its vision but not control it. If the servant died, he could not retrieve it.

"Where did it go...?" Lin Moyu wondered as he looked through the servant's eyes. First, he saw mist the servant's lower half was shrouded in it. This was no ordinary mist, but one formed by the power of the Great Dao. The servant tried to fly but could not escape the mist.

Lin Moyu willed the servant to grow larger. As it did, its view expanded, revealing endless mist in all directions, all composed of domineering Dao power. Beneath the mist, there seemed to be something else.

Suddenly, a glimmer of light sped toward the servant. Lin Moyu's expression turned odd the servant saw what appeared to be Lin Moyu himself. Of course, it couldn't be him; he hadn't moved. What the servant saw was actually a Soul Devourer.

Lin Moyu had encountered Soul Devourers before and realized immediately what this place was. It was outside heaven and earth the servant was partly within the world, partly outside. The mist and what lay beneath it were the world's barrier against Soul Devourers.

The Lord of Power had once visited a similar place and fought Soul Devourers. As an eternal, he could kill weak ones but not the strong, and was injured enough to rest for ten thousand years.

Soul Devourers were indeed difficult to deal with; Lin Moyu's undead servants stood no chance. The Soul Devourer read the servant's memories, took on Lin Moyu's appearance, and struck with a Great Dao World Ending Palm. Though not as powerful as the real thing, it was more than enough to destroy the servant, which was shattered completely by one blow and finished off with ten more.

The servant perished, unable even to return. Lin Moyu, intrigued, sent no more undead but split off a wisp of his own soul, forming an avatar to enter the rift.

After being transported, Lin Moyu found himself in the sea of Dao mist half within the world, half outside. Experiencing it personally was far clearer than through an undead servant.

Lin Moyu realized he could leave the world entirely, but if he did, he could never return. He quickly enlarged himself, becoming a giant ten thousand meters tall. For the first time, he stood outside the world, not completely gone but able to sense the difference between inside and outside. The world was wrapped in mist, with the origin energy of the Dao forming a barrier.

A glimmer of light approached a Soul Devourer. Lin Moyu struck with a Great Dao World Ending Palm, obliterating it. His attack was much stronger than a Dao Lord's, and the palm was especially effective against Soul Devourers. This one was weak, so it was easily destroyed.

But killing the Soul Devourer was like dropping water into hot oil: countless points of light appeared nearby each one a Soul Devourer.

"Did I just poke the hornet's nest?" Lin Moyu thought, and quickly dispersed his soul wisp.

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